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Maybe Samuel Pennock knew his time was growing short
This document in our archives is the deed of sale for a 125 acres of land sold by Samuel Pennock to Titus Goodall of Lyme for twelve pounds, in September, 1775. By this time, Pennock was already identified on a list of suspected Tory sympathizers in what was then Gloucester County, New York. He and his brothers and fellow Loyalists, James Jr. and Aaron, would have property in Strafford confiscated in the 1780s. Selling the land was perhaps a stopgap measure on Pennock’s part to gain some sort of income on the property before it could be seized. Read more about the Pennocks and this property here.